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Any game that single handedly managed to revive your weakened interest in gaming?

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Difficult scenarios made by legendary "Wild Bill" Wilder (R.I.P :salute:) made me really grumpy and butthurt.
 

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Dark Souls. Doom maybe but there's a lot there that rubs me the wrong way. Dark Souls felt like something straight out of the 90s for me.
 

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Yeah, all the Dark Souls are a good bet for drawing you in although I'd bet you'd probably have played them by now. For a more recent game that captured my attention and absorbed me for a good number of hours, Hades by Supergiant. It's a roguelite with persistent unlockables and fantastic combat. Really addictive and it grabbed me so I was thinking about it when I wasn't playing it, which is something I don't find with many offerings these days.
 

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Wake me up when they invent a videogame that un-ages you back into a child but does not make you relive all those horrible childhood memories
 

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Mostly Independent kept me through the decline. Terraria, Dwarf Fortress, and Cataclysm in particular. Did enjoy the hell out Dying Light, Saints Row 2, New Vegas, and Demons Souls though.
 

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I think everyone would agree Disco Elysium kind of revived the state of CRPG games. C&C, turn based combat, lots of dialog, RNG, plenty of miscellaneous items, etc. First game I've purchased at or above 65% of full price in years. Other than that, not too much.
 

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Battle Brothers right from the alpha -- it's the reason I immediately reached out to them to work on the game.

Left 4 Dead for co-op shooters, like BB, I was immediately sold from the little 1-level demo they released. The Red Orchestra series might also have been a bit of a revelation for me as I missed a chunk of the huge-multiplayer Tribes games and didn't really care for BF1942; but RO hit that sweet spot of arcadey+realism+teamwork. I just really enjoyed that series. My interest waned with the second Vietnam game, but it helped introduce me to that side of the FPS genre (Natural Selection 2 perhaps being my favorite if only it would run better).

Civ IV revitalized my interest in the civ series so strongly I gulped down CivCol, Civ5 and Civ6 without even needing to unlock my jaw.


All that said, I know the feeling. Since BB, I've not really had any sort of gaming spark for probably 3-4+ years now.
 

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Spellforce 3 and expansions (RPG and RTS mix with awesome story and fabulous voice acting). I'd look into some AA games, as AAA tend to be shitty these days.
 

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After the rather shit early Xbox 360 era with Oblivion and whatnot I was pretty borderline on playing any more "AAA" games, and started watching a lot more movies. New Vegas, Dishonored and Deus Ex: Human Revolution brought me back in and gave me "AAA" stuff to enjoy again, whether it was as good as the classics or not.

I get burned out on games a lot and tend to take long breaks though. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Witcher 3 brought me back from the last one I think, and some indie "incline" RPGs. Then I spent most of my time replaying old shit because that's just how I roll I guess.
 

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I had lost interest in 1st/3rd person exploration games, since nowadays they often follow the formula of "collect all the hidden things" + "press a button to highlight the things to collect" while you sniff all the corners of an open but linear non-reactive world. Feels like a vaccum cleaner simulator. Even The Witcher 3, arguably the best of that trend, felt like that despite its better writing.

ELEX brought back the pleasure of exploration for me. The wonder of discovery and the excitement of danger. Despite the jank, it felt... alive.
 

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Nothing really. Not felt like gaming anymore. Last game I played was Pathfinder. It's good, but it's not good enough for the OP's subject. Last real game I played was New Vegas or DA:O. Been all downhill after those games. Wrath of the Righteous does look interesting, though. Might be the one.
 
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I used to play quite a bit of games in my childhood days like Exile/old avernum, Dark Sun, various platformers and street fighter etc.

But somewhere around college I lost the charm of playing games.

Then came Etrian Odyssey III (emulated) and man I was blown. Full party creation pure combatfaggotry. Just the thing required to come out of a slump.
 

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Never stopped loving and playing games. The types of games I play has narrowed, but that's more because many types of games I enjoy simply aren't made anymore, or exist in watered down form. As much decline as there has been from the industry, there's always classic replays, classics you missed back in the day, mods, and indies.
 
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I stopped paying attention around 2003, as I saw everything turn to shit. Barely played in my 20s, which was a good decision regardless. What got me into it again was picking up a dirt cheap PSP with around 30 games a couple of years ago and playing racing games like Split Second and Test Drive Unlimited after work. Something clicked in my brain after that and here I am.
 

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Dark Souls.

Seconded. Dark Souls revitalized my waning interest in modern gaming and got me addicted to an entire genre. Not only five Soulsborne games and Sekiro, but Nioh and other clones of variable quality (Lords of the Fallen, The Surge, Ashen, Code Vein, Mortal Shell). I've even played all the 2D Souls-likes just to scratch the itch.
 

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I should try the clones one of this days. Dark Souls seems to be the Doom of our days, and there's a few Doom clones i shunned back in the day for not bieng on par with the top shooters which turned out to be rather fun when i finally tried then.
 

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I never lost interest in games or had it weakened, but in the last few years i got increasingly disinterested in big budget "AAA" industry. However Prey, Dishonored 2/2.5 and Deus Ex: MD showed me that they can still make good games (gameplay-wise at least). Prey grew to be my favorite immersive sim and i've played the demo alone for hours trying to find all possible options and paths in it.

But for me the best games lately are from small and mid sized developers (at most ~50 people - this is a mostly arbitrary limit but i've noticed that most developers whose games i like tend to be less than that in size), like ELEX and GreedFall (and other games from Spiders) on the "high end" and Ion Fury, Hedon, etc on the "lower end" and games i'm waiting for are mainly games like Monomyth and HROT. And Legendary Journeys was the last demo from Steam i downloaded that found interesting (which i just noticed has an itch.io page).
 

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Battle Brothers right from the alpha -- it's the reason I immediately reached out to them to work on the game.

Left 4 Dead for co-op shooters, like BB, I was immediately sold from the little 1-level demo they released. The Red Orchestra series might also have been a bit of a revelation for me as I missed a chunk of the huge-multiplayer Tribes games and didn't really care for BF1942; but RO hit that sweet spot of arcadey+realism+teamwork. I just really enjoyed that series. My interest waned with the second Vietnam game, but it helped introduce me to that side of the FPS genre (Natural Selection 2 perhaps being my favorite if only it would run better).

Civ IV revitalized my interest in the civ series so strongly I gulped down CivCol, Civ5 and Civ6 without even needing to unlock my jaw.


All that said, I know the feeling. Since BB, I've not really had any sort of gaming spark for probably 3-4+ years now.

Have you tried Hell Let Loose? It's in that same spot as RO I think.
 

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Fortunately I have the luxury of never having my interest in gaming weakened whatsoever, all thanks to discovering the Codex right in time before I starts throwing money on trash.

But I can't deny the voices of the scrubs and the casuls did disheartened me quite a bit, they're loud enough to sway even some of the most hardened devs out there.
 

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HoMM 2 or 3, Thief 2, nuHitman, Ab Urbe Condita for Alexander Total War.

Thanks for the inadvertent heads up for the Alexander mod. I used to love EB back in the day for RTW and MTW2. The Total Wars since have always been too tedious with pointless gimmicks and being hard to mod for, the AI was never able to be improved much.


On topic, I've ebbed and flowed with my interest in the 2000's after Uni graduation and family life, but to take the most recent example, I played the Nehrim mod for Oblivion to autistic completion despite all the crashes. It's the only RPG since F: NV that I made time for to play from start to finish without taking breaks of something else or losing interest. 100+ hours in this day and age for me on one game is a miracle. Now I'm ready to do it all again! I'll probably take a break from a first person RPG though(Enderal will be next), but another thing? Definitely have the interest back.
 

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